overall feeling AnCo gives you

i hope to god a thread similar to this has been made, but alas, the search function is long gone.
what feeling/emotion do you most often feel while listening to the great animal collective?
i either feel nostalgic or adventurous most of the time. occasionally i can be scared or frightened (r u als0 frytind?)

Yeah i once had this discussion with a friend, see I'm also a big Radiohead fan and the two bands are completley non comparable to me but my friend and I were just talking about music we loved and i lay it out like this:
Radiohead put nearly everything I understand and feel about myself in this incredibly emotional and visceral space
You know what they know.
However Animal Collective create everything I Don't yet understand, everything that cannot be put into words really, everything that is beyond our reach and for that reason I think they are the most important creative force of our lifetimes. At least of my lifetime

Listening to Animal Collective makes me feel like I'm on a Quest through a Dream-like world trying to find Enlightenment.
The journey is fascinating; sometimes beautiful, other times uncomfortable, but always magical.

Agreed, I'm searching for the right thing to be applied to my body. I'm not going to get a tattoo until either I meet someone that wants to get a tattoo with me in Australia or I visit America.
I was thinking something Down There related, like a modified cover art alligator or something. That album kind of represents a part of my life that I want to always remember, and tattoos are good for that.

Terrortoast has a peacebone tattoo.
Tats are forever and you'll always like or love AC. Just never EVER tattoo a name other than MOM on you, trust me, coverups can be expensive.
Animal Collective makes me feel:
sympatico
intoxicated
lost

i love the feels idea. it has universal apeal as well as personal apeal. if i were to ever get a tatoo that would be it. Well probably not since sombody else came up with the idea. GAHHH!!!!!! Well it's a great idea anyway.

You guys mentioned Radiohead - I think currently it's my favourite band along with AnCo (why am I not on a Radiohead forum??)
I sort of feel like Radiohead makes cool, serious music that just happens to be awesome and heartfelt in a detached sort of way (Weird Fishes anyone?)
AnCo I think is different in that it is awkward, definitely-not-cool music that is very much from the heart and makes me nostalgic for a life I haven't really lived (ain't no small towns in Malta, we're basically a concrete lump).